Lionel Messi World Cup Instagram post is most-liked ever
Lionel Messi has the world at his feet right now after inspiring Argentina to FIFA World Cup glory, the country’s first since 1986.
And as if winning the World Cup on Sunday wasn’t enough, Messi’s celebration post on Instagram has earned him yet another feather in his cap: a world record.
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Messi’s Instagram post scored millions more likes than the previous record-breaking post – held by a simple picture of an egg.
On Tuesday, the Guinness Book of World Records announced that Messi’s Insta post is now the most liked in the platform’s history, with over 67 million likes as of publication.
It features photos of him celebrating Argentina’s win over France in Sunday’s World Cup final with his teammates and shows him doing various things with the solid gold trophy, like raising it over his head, cuddling it, and kissing it.
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Messi wrote in Spanish, which loosely translates to, “I dreamed it so many times, I wanted it so much that I still haven’t fallen, I can’t believe it…Thank you very much to my family, all who support me, and all who believe in us.
We demonstrate once again that Argentines, when we fight together and unite, we are capable of achieving what we set out to do.
The merit belongs to this group, which is above individualities. It is the strength of all fighting for the same dream that was also the dream of all Argentines… We did it!!!”
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Messi’s post dethroned the famous egg photo as the most-liked post in Instagram history. An actual picture of an egg, published in 2019 specifically to set the record for the most-liked post.
The egg has over 56 million likes, but now its reign as the most-liked Instagram post in history has ended, and it’s Messi’s time.
The Instagram account called world_record_egg has only ever posted that one photo, and it has more than 4.7 million followers.
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